6 The Daily Collegian ,A t ia g Ja . A brief look at our world State Author's memoirs uncover molestations PHILADELPHIA (AP) Richard Hoffman's new memoir raised a lot of eyebrows in Allen town, his childhood home. The 46-year-old author had written that a local football coach molested him when Hoffman was 10. Earlier this week an 11-year old Little League player told police he had also been sexually molested numerous times by the football coach. John E. Feifel, 68, was arrest ed Tuesday and charged with involuntary deviate sexual inter course, aggravated indecent assault and corruption of minors. hfiibn Judge upholds scouts ban on homosexuals TRENTON, N.J. (AP) A state judge, citing the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah as evidence that homosexuality is immoral, upheld the Boy Scouts' ban on homosexuals. Superior Court Judge Patrick J. McGann found that the Mon mouth Council of the Boy Scouts did not violate state discrimina tion laws when it expelled James Dale as an assistant scoutmaster in 1990 after learning he is gay. The judge said the Boy Scouts is a private organization and has a constitutional right to decide who can belong. The Scouts' gay ban has been challenged several times but always upheld. "Mtn lvisix) , 4lA44ose criminal and immoral las . cannot be held out as role models," McGann wrote in the Nov. 3 ruling released Wednesday. -174-7441 Two caught smuggling radioactive materials WARSAW, Poland (AP) Two Czechs have been arrested for trying to smuggle 11 containers holding a radioactive material from Poland to the Czech Repub lic, Polish authorities said yes terday. The men, who were not identi fied, were being held in the southwestern Polish town of Prudnik, said border guards spokesman Jaroslaw Zukowicz. They were stopped by Polish border guards Tuesday night after radiation detectors at the border showed radiation coming from their car. Eleven cigarette pack-size metal containers holding a radioactive substance were found in the glove compartment. Authorities said tests indicated the material was strontium 90, which emits low levels of radia tion. "There is no danger to the pop ulation or to the environment," said Andrzej Popiolek, a deputy department head at the Central Radiology Laboratory. Airplane crash kills 53 in Argentina BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) An air force plane slammed into a mountain in a rainstorm, and rescuers who reached the remote area on muleback yesterday, said all 53 people on board were killed. The Fokker F-27 twin-engine plane crashed Wednesday night, diving into a deep ravine in the Cordoba Mountains, about 500 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Rescuers on foot and mule back reached the rocky crash site on Mount Champaqui at dawn and said there were no sur vivors among the 48 passengers and five crew members. Bodies and wreckage were scattered over a 500-yard area, said police Inspector Jose Car reras in the small town of Villa Dolores, 12 miles from the crash site. The plane was traveling from a base in the southern oil town of Comodoro Rivadavia. Air force spokesmen said the passengers were mostly sergeants, their wives and chil dren who were on their way to a celebration at a military acade my in Cordoba. Budget battle looms closer By ALAN FRAM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. With a potential federal default and gov ernment shutdown at stake, Con gress toiled over a pair of budget bills yesterday and lurched ever closer to a jolting veto showdown with President Clinton. A day after approving legislation that would provide stopgap funds for government agencies through Dec. 1, the House voted 227-194 for another bill extending federal bor rowing authority through Dec. 12. Leaders hoped the Senate would complete both measures in a marathon day. Administration officials pledged that both bills would meet vetoes at the White House because of unac ceptable provisions, even though the government's abilities to bor row and spend lapse next week. That declaration prompted furi ous rhetoric from both sides that almost overshadowed the day's leg islative work. White House spokesman Mike McCurry said that thanks to Republican intransigence, "default is increasingly likely." Bond prices drooped slightly. He added that "there are no chances at this point" to avoid federal agencies from hav ing to halt some of their work next week. Leon Panetta, the White House Cht.tVriiittiW' , KMted the Republi ci'm strategV'ttrOutthlg "a gun to the head of thepresident," adding, "That's a form of terrorism. We are not going to accept that." Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said he believed he had the authority to use money from some federal trust funds to keep the gov ernment functioning "for some period of time" that he declined to specify. But he still warned of the GOP borrowing extension legisla tion, "This legislation is not a debt ceiling increase, it is a shortcut to default." Dateline Hijacker captured An Ethiopian hijacker identified as Shmsu Kabret is overpowered an Olympic Airways 747 on the tarmac at Athens Airport. Kabret yesterday by security men posing as a television crew as he holds seized the attendant 10 minutes before the flight was due to land, he a knife to the throat of flight attendant Sofia Mastelou, left, aboard wanted to talk to the media about repression In Ethiopia. Assassination may be By HILARY APPELMAN Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's slaying was part of a carefully planned right-wing conspiracy, Israel's police minister said yesterday. Police unearthed a cache of guns and explosives at the-tome of thevon . fessed killer. Two-more religious Jewish extremists were hauled into court handcuffed and shackled, and police said they planned to charge one of them with murder. Only one suspect has been accused of murder so far confessed gunman Yigal Amir. "We believe there was a conspiracy by a group of people who had the infrastructure and prepared their aims quite cautiously," Police Minister Moshe Shahal said. An aide said Shahal believes the conspirators planned to kill other public figures as well. At least five suspects, including Amir, are being held in connection with Rabin's assassina- "We believe there was a conspiracy by a group of people who had the infrastructure and prepared their aims quite -cautiously": • tion Saturday night. Two, Dror Adani, 26, and Ohad Skornick, 23, were brought before a Tel Aviv magistrate yesterday. Police told Judge Haya Hefetz they plan to charge Adani, a resident of the West Bank set tlement of Beit Hagai, with murder and con spiracy. Adani, a slight, bearded man with a skullcap, is "part of a group that planned and carried out the murder of the prime minister," said police Clinton health care bill cost: $l4 million! By JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. The Clinton administra tion's ill-fated health care reform plan cost nearly $l4 million to draft, a sum that dwarfs the original White House price tag of less than $ 100,000, congres sional auditors said yesterday. Costs for the 12-member President's Task Force on Health Care Reform, which first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton oversaw, were spread across 10 agencies and totaled $13.8 million, the General Accounting Office said in a report. More than half that amount, $ 7.7 million, was spent between June and November 1993 when the White House was writing a 1,342-page bill to encompass the reforms it had settled on, according to the report by the investigative arm of Congress. The Clinton bill was almost immediately discarded by Congress, as various committees drafted their own plans and then feuded over which version should be voted on. Congress abandoned the effort in late 1994 in a major blow to President Clinton's ambitious agenda. Since then, the administration has been admonished that writing its own legislation was a costly waste of time and an infringement on a duty normally reserved for Congress. Rep. William Clinger, R-Warren., chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Commit tee, said the discrepancy between the original cost estimates and the final price tag was "another exam ple of the Clinton administration not being forthcom ing with the Congress and the American people." The White House said that the total cost for the task Questions arise over Doctor Death's last victim Pathologists are debating about whether the woman who killed herself with Kevorkian's aid had a terminal condition. By SANDRA A. SVOSODA Associated Press Writer SOUTHFIELD, Mich. The lat est person to die in Jack Kevorkian's presence was indeed terminally ill, an- outside expert said yesterday as questions arose over whether the man known as Doctor Death had moved too fast this time. While Kevorkian's lawyer said the breast cancer that spread Moshe Shahal Israeli police minister through Patricia Cashman's body was crumbling her bones, a prelim inary autopsy found no visible traces of the disease. At the request of The Associated Press, Dr. Jeffrey Forman, vice chairman of radiology at Wayne State University School of Medi cine, reviewed some of Cashman's medical records, which were pro vided by Kevorkian's lawyer. Cashman did have bone cancer, but it wouldn't necessarily have been detected during a routine autopsy, Forman said. Cashman, 58, of San Marcos, Calif., was found Wednesday in a car near the morgue. Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, said Cashman had undergone a mastec tomy three years ago and suffered "excruciating" pain from the dis- Friday, Nov. 10, 1995! part of ploti investigator Nissim Daoudi. He said the group hoarded weapons and tried to kill Rabin on sev eral occasions. Skornick, a close friend and classmate of Amir, is accused of conspiracy. Daoudi said police searched Amir's home and found "weaponry that befits a terror organiza tion, including timers for bombs and The weapons TNT and other explosivei; time fuses and a silencer were discovered boxes buried in the yard of the home wher Amir's mother, Geula, runs a preschool, Israel Radio said. Detectives waited for hours for the children to leave before they began digging. Arms were also found in the attic. Amir, a 2S-year-old law student, insists h acted alone. None of the suspects has been formally charged, and the government has not yet pre sented any proof to back up its conspiracy alle gations. Skornick's family accused the government of; making arrests simply to ease public pressure. I force "paled in comparison" to what opponents of the.; health care plan spent trying to defeat it. • • "The magnitude of the task was great, and the over-i all cost in comparison is relatively modest," spokes-: woman Ginny Terzano said. She said that despite the! low estimates it was "never our intent to mislead or; misreport" the true costs of the effort. The task force's original charter, submitted ini March 1993, stated that its final cost "is expected tol be below $100,000." In testimony before Congress in 1994, White House: aide Patsy Thomasson revised that estimate, placing: the cost closer to $211,000. t But signs quickly emerged that the figure was far: off the mark. • The Associated Press reported in February that: records it obtained under the Freedom of Information* Act showed the administration paid hundreds of thou-• sand of dollars in consulting fees to advisers who! assisted the task force. Some of those advisers with political connections to the Clintons were paid as much as $lOO,OOO each. A month later, the GAO announced a preliminary study had found as much as $9.6 million in expendi tures related to the task force and warned that some of the information agencies provided was not com plete. Republican lawmakers accused the White House of= hiding the task force's true costs, and Thomasson returned to Capitol Hill to acknowledge her original estimate included only administrative costs, which' were "a minor part of the total cost." Lawmakers asked the GAO to continue the audit, obtaining documents from all available agencies that worked on the issue. ease spreading through her body. She had been treated at Scripps, Memorial Hospital in Encinitas, Calif. but doctors could not com ment until her next of kin released the medical records, spokeswoman Sue Pondrom said. The autopsy found that Cashman" died of carbon monoxide poisoning. It was ruled a homicide. Prosecu tors and investigators said they' would wait for a final report before deciding whether to charge,. Kevorkian. Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, has acknowledged attending 26 sui -4. cides since 1990. Kevorkian already faces assist ed-suicide charges in four deaths in Oakland County. He could get five years in prison in each case if convicted.
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